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Live Wire Bible in a Year: Numbers 31–33 Mark 9:1–29 We were eyewitnesses of his majesty. 2 Peter 1:16 Mark 9:2–10 “I felt like I had touched a live wire,” said Professor Holly Ordway, describing her reaction to John Donne’s majestic poem “Holy Sonnet 14.” There’s something happening in this poetry, she thought. I wonder what it is. Ordway recalls it as the moment her previously atheistic worldview allowed for the possibility of the supernatural. Eventually she would believe in the transforming reality of the resurrected Christ. Touching a live wire—that must have been how Peter, James, and John felt on the day Jesus took them to a mountaintop, where they witnessed a dramatic transformation. Christ’s “clothes became dazzling white” (Mark 9:3) and Elijah and Moses appeared—an event we know today as the transfiguration. Descending from the mountain, Jesus told the disciples not to tell anyone what they’d seen until He’d risen (v. 9). But they didn’t even know what He meant by “rising from the dead” (v. 10). The disciples’ understanding of Jesus was woefully incomplete, because they couldn’t conceive of a destiny that included His death and resurrection. But eventually their experiences with their resurrected Lord would utterly transform their lives. Late in his life, Peter described his encounter with Christ’s transfiguration as the time when the disciples were first “eyewitnesses of his majesty” (2 Peter 1:16). As Professor Ordway and the disciples learned, when we encounter the power of Jesus we touch a “live wire.” There’s something happening here. The living Christ beckons us. Reflect & Pray What are some of your “live wire” experiences: moments when you encountered God in a radically new way? How has your knowledge of Him changed over time? Father, when we approach You in prayer, we come to what we don’t comprehend. Forgive us for taking for granted the majesty of Your presence. 
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Like the disciples, I sometimes feel my understanding of the Lord is very incomplete also. But I don't have to understand electricity and how it works to know and trust that it does. I just turn on the light. The same with my computer or any other thing in our natural world. That's the way it is with the Lord. I don't have to understand all the hows and the whys.... I just know that He is, that He loves me and died for me, that He arose again from the dead, and is now a part of my every day life. Be a prism, spreading God's light and love, not a mirror reflecting the world's hatred.
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3/4/2020 9:04 am |
HE LIVES!!!!!!
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Quite a few years day, I was working on meditation and initiation into the Good Medicine Society. (Native American Spirituality) I touched the edge of the wall of a trailer for a most shocking experience. My husband was an electrician and was able to quickly correct the situation to prevent others from experience it. Some of the members decided that I must have gotten zapped by the creator. Yeah Right! Abracadabra 
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